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1.5°C COP26 Side Event
The Architecture 2030 and ASHRAE official COP26 Side Event took place at COP (UN Climate Change Conference) in Glasgow on November 10th, featuring the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué and select signatory organizations. The event set the tone for the Cities, Regions & Built Environment Day at COP26 on November 11th, demonstrating that the leading building industry professionals and…
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Webinars: Electrification Training Series
The What: BayREN provides free engineering technical assistance to help local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area save energy and money while reducing their carbon footprints. The Municipal ZNE/ZNC Assistance program helps municipalities retrofit or construct buildings to meet zero net energy (ZNE) or zero net carbon (ZNC) goals by providing engineering analysis and…
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Webinar: The New Federal Sustainability Executive Order – Everything You Need to Know
With the signing of the new Federal Sustainability Executive Order the current administration has set forth aggressive goals to make the Federal government a leader in creating net-zero emissions buildings, utilizing carbon pollution-free electricity and a developing a net-zero emissions procurement plan. Join Greenbuild to kick off 2022 with a 1 hour webinar featuring Federal…
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Architecture at Zero 2020 Winners
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2020 Architecture at Zero Competition
The 2020 Architecture at Zero competition, now in its ninth year, was conceived as a response to the zero net energy targets set out by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) in the 2008 report, California’s Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. In this report, the CPUC set out four “Big Bold Energy Efficiency Strategies”…
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Facades+ San Francisco
The symposium program includes three sessions covering issues unique to the region, including innovative building skins, high performance facades, and the future face of San Francisco.
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nZEB Oodi – More Than Just a Library
Editor’s note: If I have the opportunity, I always try to include some personal perspective on the projects that I feature on the Green Architecture and Building Report. My friends Andrea Lee and Giles Richter recently traveled to Helsinki and spent at least a couple of hours exploring a really cool, new building near the…
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Accelerate Transition to Circular Built Environment
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Simplicity and Sustainability Merge at Medical Campus
The Humanitas University of Milan project comes to a conclusion with the student residences designed by architect Filippo Taidelli of FTA studio based in Milan, Italy. Research, education, and hospitality combined with sustainability become a model of excellence in education. Pieve Emanuele (MI) –The opening of the Mario Luzzatto Student House residences completes the Humanitas…
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2019 COTE Top Ten
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the COTE Top Ten awards program for sustainable design excellence. The winning projects not only met the AIA Committee on the Environment’s rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value but also demonstrated that good design is more than just pretty looking buildings. Many of the winning projects live…